WO2014000285A1

WO2014000285A1 - Application searching method and device

Info

Publication number: WO2014000285A1
Application number: PCT/CN2012/077958
Authority: WO
Inventors: 崔首领; 顾翀
Original assignee: 华为技术有限公司
Priority date: 2012-06-29
Filing date: 2012-06-29
Publication date: 2014-01-03
Also published as: CN103620596A

Abstract

An application searching method and related device, the method comprising: a server receives an application request transmitted by a terminal; the server analyzes the intent of the user according to the application request; the server searches for application software in compliance with the intent of the user and sends to the terminal an instruction message for using the application software. The server in an embodiment of the present invention can analyze the intent of a user according to the application request after receiving an application request transmitted by a terminal, locate the application software matching the intent of the user, and instruct the user terminal to use the application software so as to fulfill the application request proposed by the user, thus achieving the purpose of searching for the required application software based on the requirement of the user. This application searching method is fast and convenient.

Description

Application search method and device

The embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of mobile applications, and in particular, to an application search method and device.

Background technique

Intelligent mobile terminals are becoming more and more popular. According to a report released by the US market research company, the global shipment of smart mobile terminals surpassed the shipment of personal computers (PCs) for the first time in 2011. The annual shipments were approximately 485 million units. For the full year of 2011, Android mobile terminals accounted for 48.8% of the total, with shipments of approximately 237.80 million units. Research shows that China's domestic smart mobile terminal market is expected to achieve record growth in 2011, with shipments expected to increase by 53%, from 35 million last year to 54.1 million.

With the popularity of smart mobile terminals, the application of smart mobile terminals is also increasing. According to recent survey data of mobile terminal application security company Lookout Mobile Security, the number of applications for Android has increased by 127 since August 2011. %, the application growth rate of the Apple system application during the same period was 44%. As of February 18, 2012, Apple currently has 348.894 million applications. Google announced that it has more than 300,000 apps on the Android market.

There are many applications of the existing mobile terminal. When a user wants to use a certain type of application, the name of the application corresponding to the application needs to be known, so that the application function can be found by using the search function on the mobile terminal, in many cases, such as The user has not installed the corresponding application software, and the name of the application software cannot be said. Therefore, the user cannot find the application software that he or she needs without knowing the application software name.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the invention provides an application search method and related device, which can search for application software required by the user according to the needs of the user.

The application search method provided by the present invention includes: the server receives an application request sent by the terminal; the server analyzes the user intention according to the application request; the server searches for application software that meets the user's intention, and sends the application to the terminal. The indication message of the application software.

Optionally, the analyzing the user intent according to the application request includes:

Performing text analysis on the application request, extracting an intent feature in the application request, and matching a corresponding user intent according to the intent feature. Optionally, the sending, by the terminal, the indication message that uses the application software to the terminal, the method includes: the server sending a first indication message to the terminal, where the first indication message is used to trigger the terminal to start the application software; or The server sends a second indication message to the terminal, where the second indication message is used to trigger the terminal to open the link of the application software.

Optionally, before the sending the indication message using the application software to the terminal, the method further includes:

Providing the installation program of the application software to the terminal, or pushing the download address of the installation program of the application software to the terminal.

Optionally, before the providing the installation program of the application software to the terminal, or the pushing the download address of the installation program of the application software to the terminal, the method further includes:

Obtain the application software information installed by the terminal;

If the server learns that the application software is not installed according to the installed application software information, triggering the installation procedure of providing the application software to the terminal, or triggering the pushing of the application software to the terminal The steps to install the download address of the program.

Optionally, the performing text analysis on the application request further includes: extracting a parameter of the intent attribute in the application request; the indication message sent to the terminal using the application software includes a parameter of the intent attribute, The terminal is caused to use the parameter of the intent attribute as an input parameter using the application software.

Optionally, the method further includes: associating the user intent with the application software; the searching for the application software that meets the user intent specifically includes: selecting an application software associated with the user intent as the user intent is met Application software.

Optionally, the associating the user intent with the application software specifically includes:

Associating the application software with an intent directory according to a function of the application software, the intent directory includes a plurality of sets of user intents; and/or establishing an association relationship between the category directory of the third-party library and the intent directory, The intent directory includes a plurality of sets of user intents; if the application is downloaded from the third-party library, determining the application and the third-party library according to the classification of the third-party library by the application The association relationship of the user intent corresponding to the classification.

The application search method provided by the present invention includes: the terminal acquiring an application request provided by the user; the terminal sending the application request to the server, so that the server is requested according to the application An application software for analyzing the user's intention and for reviewing the user's intention; the terminal receiving an indication message sent by the server and using the application software, where the indication message using the application software carries the application request The identity of the requested application.

The application search method provided by the present invention includes: the terminal acquiring an application request provided by the user; the terminal analyzing the user intention according to the application request; the terminal searching for the application software that meets the intention of the user, and providing the user with the application Application software.

Optionally, the analyzing the user intention according to the application request includes:

Performing text analysis on the application request, extracting an intent feature in the application request; matching the corresponding user intent according to the intent feature.

Optionally, the performing the text analysis on the application request, the method further includes: extracting a parameter of the intent attribute in the application request; and the using the application software to resolve the application request, specifically: The parameters are used as input parameters for the application software.

Optionally, the method further includes: associating the user intent with the application software; the searching for the application software that meets the user intent includes: selecting an application software associated with the user intent as the user intent is met Application software.

Optionally, the associating the user intent with the application software includes:

The server provided by the present invention includes:

a receiving unit, configured to receive an application request sent by the terminal, an analyzing unit, configured to analyze the user intent according to the application request, and an application indicating unit, configured to search for application software that meets the intention of the user, and send the application to the terminal An indication message of the application software.

The terminal provided by the present invention includes:

a request obtaining unit, configured to acquire an application request provided by the user, and a request sending unit, configured to send the application request to the server, so that the server analyzes the user intention according to the application request and searches for an application software that checks the user's intention Receiving an indication unit, configured to receive the server to send An indication message of the application software, where the indication message carries an identifier of the application software requested by the application request.

The terminal provided by the present invention includes:

a requesting unit, configured to obtain an application request provided by the user, an analyzing unit, configured to analyze the user intent according to the application request, and an application searching unit, configured to search for an application software that meets the intention of the user, and the application unit is used to use the application Application software.

As can be seen from the above technical solutions, the embodiments of the present invention have the following advantages:

After receiving the application request sent by the terminal, the server in the embodiment of the present invention may analyze the user intention of the user according to the application request, and find an application soft implementation that matches the user's intention to search for the user according to the user's needs. For the purpose of the required application software, such an application search method is convenient and fast.

DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of an application search method according to the present invention;

2 is a signaling interaction flowchart of an application search method according to the present invention;

3 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of an application search method according to the present invention;

4 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of an application search method according to the present invention;

5 is another signaling interaction flowchart of an application search method according to the present invention;

6 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of an application search method according to the present invention;

7 is a schematic diagram of a mapping relationship of an intent directory of the present invention;

8 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of an application search method according to the present invention;

9 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a server according to the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a terminal according to the present invention; FIG.

11 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a terminal of the present invention.

detailed description

An embodiment of the present invention provides an application search method and related apparatus for searching for application software required by a user according to a user's needs.

Referring to FIG. 1, an embodiment of an application search method in an embodiment of the present invention includes:

101. The server receives an application request sent by the terminal. The server receives an application request sent by the terminal, where the application request includes at least one intent feature, and the user intent may include multiple intent features. For example, if the user intends to subscribe to a restaurant, the intent feature of the book restaurant may be a restaurant name. , dish name or cuisine, etc.

Specifically, in a practical application, after the user inputs the application request to the terminal, the terminal may forward the application request to the server, so that the server processes the application request, where the application request input manner may be a text. Input, can also be voice input.

102. The server analyzes the user intention according to the application request.

The server analyzes the user's intention according to the application request. Specifically, the application request may perform text analysis, extract the intent feature in the application request, and then match the corresponding user intention according to the intent feature; wherein, the optional The intent feature can successfully match multiple user intents. The larger the intent feature extracted from an application request, the more accurate the user intent matching, that is, the less user intent to successfully match.

103. The server searches for application software that meets the intention of the user;

After determining the user intent of the application request, the server searches for the application software that meets the user's intention; specifically, the server may perform a search according to the function directory of the application software, if the function implemented by the application software and the user If the intent matches, it is determined that the application software is the software to be found.

The application software includes various software of the mobile terminal, various software of the tablet, and a web application (such as a web game).

104. The server sends an indication message that uses the application software to the terminal.

The server sends an indication message using the application software to the terminal, such that the user requests the requested application software on the terminal using the application.

Optionally, the sending, by the terminal, the indication message that uses the application software may be that the first indication message is sent to the terminal, where the first indication message is used to trigger the terminal to start the application software, or send the second to the terminal. The indication message is used to trigger the terminal to open the link of the application software, in this case, when the application software is a web application. It can be understood that the indication message indicating that the terminal uses the application software may have other forms, which is not limited herein.

After receiving the application request sent by the terminal, the server in the embodiment of the present invention may The application request analyzes the user's intention of the user, and finds the purpose of searching for the application software required by the user with the user's intention to match the user's intention.

The following describes the signaling interaction process between the terminal and the server in the foregoing embodiment of FIG. 1, which is specifically referred to FIG. 2:

201. The terminal acquires an application request provided by the user.

The terminal obtains an application request provided by the user; optionally, the application request provided by the user may be a voice request.

202. The terminal sends the application request to a server.

The terminal sends the application request to the server, such that the server analyzes the user's intent according to the application request.

203. The server analyzes the user intent according to the application request.

204. The server finds an application that meets the intention of the user.

205. The server sends an indication message that uses the application software to the terminal.

206. The terminal provides the user with the application software indicated by the indication message according to the indication of the indication message.

Optionally, if the indication message includes a parameter of an intent attribute, the terminal uses the parameter of the meaning attribute as an input parameter using the application software.

In an actual application, when the user requests the application, the user may also provide information related to the application request, and when the application software is started, the related information may be automatically input at the same time, thereby achieving the purpose of conveniently and quickly using the application software. For example, please refer to FIG. 3, another embodiment of applying the search method in the embodiment of the present invention, which specifically includes:

301. The server receives an application request sent by the terminal.

The server receives an application request sent by the terminal, the application request includes at least one intent feature, and a user intent may include a plurality of intent features.

Optionally, if the application request is a voice request, the server converts the voice request into an application request in text form. In an actual application, the application request obtained by the terminal may be voice information, and the terminal may directly send the voice information to the server for processing, or may perform local text conversion on the terminal and then send the message to the server, and the specific implementation form is here. Not limited. 302. The server performs text analysis on the application request.

The server performs text analysis on the application request, and extracts parameters of the intent feature and the intent attribute in the application request.

Specifically, the server may perform sentence component analysis on the application request, perform word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity extraction on the text content requested by the application, and obtain parameters of the intention feature and the intent attribute in the application request, respectively. Exemplarily, the intent attribute may be time, place, number of people, etc., correspondingly, if the order is taken as an example, the parameter of the intent attribute may be time, place, number of people, respectively, may be 7:00 pm on January 10, The location is Little Sheep, and the number is two; Specifically, the type of the intent attribute is determined according to the user's intention, and is not limited herein.

The application scenario in the embodiment of the present invention has been described above by using only some examples. It can be understood that there are more application scenarios in the actual application, which are not limited herein.

303. The server matches the corresponding user intent according to the intention feature.

After extracting the intent features in the application request, the server matches the corresponding user intent based on the intent features.

Specifically, before performing the application request sent by the receiving terminal, the server establishes an intent directory, where the intent directory contains multiple sets of user intents, and a set of user intents corresponding to the intent feature and the intent attribute matched thereto. For example, refer to The relationship map of Figure 7.

The user intent in the user intent corresponding item in FIG. 7 may be a restaurant, a ticket reservation, a taxi reservation, a movie reservation ticket, a train reservation ticket, and the like. Accordingly, the user intention correspondence corresponding to various user intentions may include an intention. Attribute and intent characteristics. For the user's intention of ordering a restaurant, the intent attribute may include location, time, number of people, price, cuisine, etc., and the intentional features may include Maojia Hotel, Xiangjiang old chef, oyster fish head and Hunan cuisine. For the user intent of booking a taxi, the intent attribute may include a departure point, an end point, a flood season, an airline, a price, etc., and the corresponding intent characteristics may be an airplane, a flight, a ticket, a flight, a check-in, a China Southern flight, and the like.

304. The server searches for an application that meets the intention of the user.

After determining the user intent of the application request, the server searches for the application software that meets the user's intention; specifically, the server may perform a search according to the function directory of the application software, if the function implemented by the application software and the user If the intent matches, it is determined that the application software is the software to be found. The application software includes various software of the mobile terminal, various software of the tablet, and a web application such as a web game.

305. The server sends an indication message that uses the application software to the terminal.

The server sends an indication message using the application software to the terminal, such that the user requests the requested application software on the terminal using the application. The indication message includes a parameter of an intended attribute, such that the terminal uses the parameter of the intent attribute as an input parameter using the application software. For example, if the user intends to order a meal, the application software corresponding to the user's intention may implement a function of ordering, and when the application software is used, information such as a predetermined time, a predetermined restaurant, and a book order number may be input, if If the user request is related to the information that is required to be input, the related information is extracted as a parameter of the intent attribute, and the parameter of the intent attribute is sent to the terminal by the indication message, so that the terminal is in the terminal. When the application software is used, the parameter of the intent attribute is automatically extracted as an input parameter, and the function of searching for a related service is directly started; in an actual application, the user request may not necessarily include all relevant information that needs to be input, and then the device is started. Before searching for the function of the related service, the application software prompts the user to input necessary related information.

Optionally, the sending, by the terminal, the indication message that uses the application software may be that the first indication message is sent to the terminal, where the first indication message is used to trigger the terminal to start the application software, or send the second to the terminal. The indication message is used to trigger the terminal to open the link of the application software, which is when the user software is a web application. It is to be understood that the indication message indicating that the terminal uses the application software may have other forms, which are not limited herein.

The following is a detailed description of the application search method of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, another embodiment of the application search method in the embodiment of the present invention includes:

401. The server receives an application request sent by the terminal.

Optionally, the application request may carry application software information that is installed by the terminal, and the information of the application software may be an identifier of the installed application software.

Optionally, the application request may carry model information and system information of the terminal. 402. The server performs text analysis on the application request.

The content of the step 402 in this embodiment is the same as that of the step 302 in the foregoing embodiment shown in FIG. 3, and details are not described herein again.

403. The server matches the corresponding user intent according to the intent feature.

The content of the step 403 in the embodiment is the same as that of the step 303 in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, and details are not described herein again.

404. The server searches for an application that meets the intention of the user.

After determining the user intent corresponding to the application request, the server looks for application software that conforms to the user's intent.

Optionally, when configuring the intent directory, the user intent and the application software may be associated, and the application software associated with the user intent may be selected as the application software that conforms to the user intent.

The associated method can be:

1) the server associates the application software and the intent directory according to the function of the application software, where the intent directory contains multiple sets of user intent; specifically, the function of the application is introduced as text, and each intent in the intent directory Collecting training corpus, using the intent catalog as a category, establishing a classification model, classifying the application; introducing the function of the software as text, classifying the function of the application software as text, and determining the application according to the calculated weight The user intent of the software.

And/or, 2) establishing an association relationship between the classification directory of the third-party library and the intent directory, the intent directory containing a plurality of sets of user intent; if the application is downloaded from the third-party library, according to the application In the classification of the third-party program library, determining an association relationship of the user intent corresponding to the classification of the application program and the third-party program library.

Optionally, if the application request carries the model information and the system information of the terminal, the application software that meets the terminal may be searched according to the model information and the system information of the terminal.

405. The server provides the application to the terminal.

After finding the application software that meets the user's intent, the server provides the address to the terminal.

Optionally, if the server can obtain the application software information that is installed by the terminal, the server may learn, by the application software information, whether the application software is installed, if the terminal has been installed. The application software does not need to perform the step 405; if the terminal does not install the application software, triggering the installation procedure of providing the application software to the terminal, or triggering the installation of the application software to the terminal The steps to download the program address.

406. The server sends an indication message that uses the application software to the terminal.

The content of the step 406 in the embodiment is the same as that of the step 305 in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, and details are not described herein again.

The following describes the signaling interaction process between the terminal and the server in the foregoing embodiment of FIG. 3 or FIG. 4, which is specifically referred to FIG. 5:

501. The terminal sends a voice request to the voice conversion server.

If the application request provided by the user is a voice request, the voice request is sent to the voice conversion server, so that the voice conversion server performs text conversion on the voice request, and then returns to the terminal.

502. The voice conversion server performs text conversion on the voice request.

503. The voice conversion server returns an application request obtained after the text conversion to the terminal. 504. The terminal sends the application request to a server.

505. The server analyzes the user intent according to the application request.

Specifically, the server performs text analysis on the application request, extracts parameters of the intention feature and the intent attribute in the application request, and then matches the corresponding user intent according to the intention feature.

506. The server searches for an application that meets the intention of the user.

507. The server provides the terminal with an installation program of the application software or an address of the installation program. Optionally, if the application request carries the installed application software information of the terminal, and the model information and system information of the terminal, the server may determine, by using the foregoing information analysis, whether the terminal is installed with the The application software, if not, provides the installer of the application or the address of the installer.

Optionally, the server may directly provide the installation program of the application software or the address of the installation program without knowing the installed application software information of the terminal, and the model information of the terminal and the system information. For example, an installation program of various models or systems can be provided.

508. The terminal installs the application software.

509. The server sends an indication message that uses the application software to the terminal. Optionally, the installation program of the application software or the address of the installation program may also carry the indication message together, in this case, the step 507 may not be separately performed.

510. The terminal provides the user with the application software indicated by the indication message according to the indication of the indication message.

Optionally, if the indication message includes a parameter of an intent attribute, the terminal uses the parameter of the meaning attribute as an input parameter using the application software. The application search method in the embodiment of the present invention is described in terms of a terminal. Referring to FIG. 6, another embodiment of the application search method in the embodiment of the present invention includes:

601. The terminal acquires an application request provided by the user.

Optionally, if the application requests a voice request, the terminal may locally perform text conversion on the voice request, and then send an application request in text form to the server.

Optionally, if the application request is a voice request, the terminal may further send the voice request to the voice conversion server, so that the voice conversion server converts the voice type application request into a text type application request, Return to the terminal.

602. The terminal sends the application request to a server.

Optionally, the terminal may further add, in the application request, application software information installed by the terminal, and/or model information and system information of the terminal, where the information of the application software may be the installed application software. Logo.

603. The terminal receives an installation program of the application software provided by the server or an address of the installation program. Optionally, the terminal receives an installation program of the application software provided by the server, or receives an address of the installation program of the application software pushed by the server. .

After receiving the application request sent by the terminal, the server analyzes the user's intention according to the application request, and then searches for the application software that meets the user's intention according to the user's intention, and the server may send the application software to the terminal. Installer, or the application software that is pushed to the terminal The address of the installed program.

604. The terminal receives the indication message sent by the server.

The terminal receives the indication message sent by the server, where the indication message carries the identifier of the application software requested by the application request, and instructs the terminal to provide the application software to the user.

For example, if the user intends to order a meal, the application software corresponding to the user's intention may implement a function of ordering, and when the application software is used, information such as a predetermined time, a predetermined restaurant, and a book order number may be input, if If the user request is related to the information that is required to be input, the related information is extracted as a parameter of the intent attribute, and the parameter of the intent attribute is sent to the terminal by using the indication message, so that the terminal is using the application software. When the parameter of the intent attribute is automatically extracted as an input parameter, the function of searching for the related service is directly started; in the actual application, the user request may not necessarily include all relevant information that needs to be input, and the function of searching for the related service is started. Previously, the application software would prompt the user to input the necessary relevant information.

In an actual application, the application search method may be implemented by the terminal independently. Referring to FIG. 8, another embodiment of the application search method in the embodiment of the present invention includes:

801. The terminal acquires an application request provided by the user.

Optionally, if the application requests a voice request, the terminal may locally perform text conversion on the voice request to obtain an application request in text form.

802. The terminal performs text analysis on the application request, and extracts parameters of an intent feature and an intent attribute in the application request.

Specifically, the terminal may perform sentence component analysis on the application request, perform word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity extraction on the text content requested by the application, and obtain parameters of the intent feature and the intent attribute in the application request, respectively. Exemplarily, the intent attribute may be time, place, number of people, etc., correspondingly, if the order is taken as an example, the parameters of the intent attribute may include time, place, and number of people, that is, the time is 7:00, January 10, the place It is a small fat sheep, and the number is two; specifically, the type of the intent attribute is determined according to the user's intention, and is not limited herein. The application scenario in the embodiment of the present invention has been described above by using only some examples. It can be understood that there are more application scenarios in the actual application, which are not limited herein.

803. The terminal matches the corresponding user intention according to the intention feature.

After extracting the intent features in the application request, the terminal matches the corresponding user intent according to the intent feature.

Specifically, before performing the application request sent by the receiving terminal, the terminal establishes an intent directory, where the intent directory contains multiple sets of user intents, and a set of user intents corresponding to the intent feature and the intent attribute matched thereto. For example, refer to The relationship map of Figure 7.

804. The terminal searches for an application that meets the intention of the user.

After determining the user intent corresponding to the application request, the terminal looks for application software that conforms to the user's intent.

The associated method can be:

1) the terminal associates the application software and the intent directory according to the function of the application software, where the intent directory contains multiple sets of user intent; specifically, the function of the application is introduced as text, and each intent in the intent directory Collecting training corpus, using the intent catalog as a category, establishing a classification model, classifying the application; introducing the function of the software as text, classifying the function of the application software as text, and determining the application according to the calculated weight The user intent of the software.

805. The terminal provides the user with the application software requested by the application request.

After finding the application software, the terminal provides the user with the application software requested by the application request.

Optionally, after the application software is found, the terminal may detect whether the application software is installed locally, and if not, find and download an installation program of the application software on the Internet.

Optionally, if the application request includes a parameter with an intent attribute, the terminal will The parameters of the graph attribute are used as input parameters for the application software.

For example, if the user intends to order a meal, the application software corresponding to the user's intention may implement a function of ordering, and when the application software is used, information such as a predetermined time, a predetermined restaurant, and a book order number may be input, if If the user request is related to the user request, the related information needs to be input, and the related information is extracted as a parameter of the intent attribute, so that when the terminal uses the application software, the terminal automatically extracts the parameter of the intent attribute as an input parameter, and directly starts the search. The function of the related service; In the actual application, the user request may not necessarily include all relevant information that needs to be input, and the application software prompts the user to input necessary related information before starting the function of searching for the related service.

An embodiment of the server of the present invention for performing the above application search method is described below. For the logical structure, please refer to FIG. 9. An embodiment of the server in the embodiment of the present invention includes:

The receiving unit 901 is configured to receive an application request sent by the terminal.

The analyzing unit 902 is configured to analyze the user intent according to the application request;

The application indicating unit 903 is configured to search for application software that meets the intention of the user, and send an indication message using the application software to the terminal.

Optionally, the analyzing unit 902 in the embodiment of the present invention may include:

a text analysis module 9021, configured to perform text analysis on the application request;

Feature extraction module 9022, configured to extract an intent feature in the application request;

The parameter extraction module 9024 is configured to extract a parameter of the intent attribute in the application request. The intent matching module 9023 is configured to match the corresponding user intent according to the intent feature.

Optionally, the application indicating unit 903 in the embodiment of the present invention may include:

The first indication module 9031 is configured to send, by the terminal, the first indication message to the terminal, where the first indication message is used to trigger the terminal to start the application software; the second indication module 8032 And sending, by the terminal, the second indication message to the terminal, where the second indication message is used to trigger the terminal to open the link of the application software.

Optionally, the server in the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

The software pushing unit 904 is configured to provide an installation program of the application software to the terminal, or push a download address of the installation program of the application software to the terminal.

The installation information obtaining unit 905 is configured to acquire the application software information that the terminal has installed, and if known If the application software is not installed, the software push unit is triggered.

The associating unit 906 is configured to associate the user intent with the application software, so that the application instructing unit selects the application software associated with the user intent as the application software that conforms to the user intent.

Optionally, the association unit 906 in the embodiment of the present invention may include:

The function association module 9061 is configured to associate the application software and the intended directory according to the function of the application software, where the intent directory includes multiple sets of user intents;

a directory association module 9062, configured to establish an association relationship between the category directory of the third-party library and the intent directory, where the intent directory includes multiple sets of user intents; if the application is downloaded from the third-party library, according to the application The program determines, in the classification of the third-party program library, an association relationship of the user intention corresponding to the classification of the application program and the third-party program library. The receiving unit 901 receives an application request sent by the terminal, the application request includes at least one intention feature, and a user intention may include multiple intent features.

Optionally, the application request may carry the application software information that the terminal has installed, where the application software information may be an identifier of the installed application software.

Optionally, the application request may carry model information and system information of the terminal. The analyzing unit 902 analyzes the user's intention according to the application request;

Specifically, the server may perform sentence component analysis on the application request, perform word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity extraction on the text content requested by the application, and obtain parameters of the intention feature and the intent attribute in the application request, respectively. Exemplarily, the intent attribute may be time, place, number of people, etc., correspondingly, if the order is taken as an example, the parameters of the intent attribute may include time, place, and number of people, and the time may be 7:00 pm on January 10, the place It is a small fat sheep, and the number is two; specifically, the type of the intent attribute is determined according to the user's intention, and is not limited herein.

Specifically, the text analysis module 9021 of the analysis unit 902 performs text analysis on the application request; the feature extraction module 9022 matches the corresponding user intent according to the intent feature. Before performing the application request sent by the terminal, the server establishes an intent directory, the intent directory contains a plurality of sets of user intents, and a set of user intents corresponding to the intent feature and the intent attribute matched thereto. For example, refer to FIG. 7 Relationship map. If the application request includes an intent attribute of the application parameter, the parameter extraction module 9024 extracts a parameter of the intent attribute in the application request; the intent matching module 7023: Searching for an application that meets the user's intention; specifically, the server may perform a search according to a function directory of the application software, and if the function implemented by the application software matches the user's intention, determining that the application software is to be found Software. The application software includes various software of the mobile terminal, various software of the tablet, and a web application such as a web game.

Optionally, when configuring the intent directory, the associating unit 906 can associate the user intent with the application software, and select an application software associated with the user intent as the application software that conforms to the user intent. specific:

The function associating module 9061 associates the application software and the intent directory according to the function of the application software, where the intent directory contains multiple sets of user intent; specifically, the function of the application is introduced as text, and each of the intent directories is Intent to collect training corpus, use the intent directory as a category, establish a classification model, classify the application; introduce the function of the software as text, classify the function of the application software as text, and determine the weight according to the calculated weight User intent corresponding to the application software. Optionally, the directory association module 9062 establishes an association relationship between the category directory of the third-party library and the intent directory, where the intent directory includes multiple sets of user intents; if the application is downloaded from the third-party library, according to the The classification of the application in the third-party library determines an association relationship of the user intent of the application with the classification of the third-party library.

The application instructing unit 903 finds application software that conforms to the user's intention, and sends an indication message using the application software to the terminal.

Optionally, after the application software that meets the user's intention is found, the installation information acquiring unit 705 acquires the application software information installed by the terminal, and if it is known that the application software is not installed, triggers the software push unit.

Optionally, the software pushing unit 904 may provide the installation procedure of the application software to the terminal. If the terminal has installed the application, the first indication module 9031 sends a first indication message to the terminal, where The first indication message is used to trigger the terminal to start the application software; or the second indication module 9032 sends a second indication message to the terminal, where the second indication message is used to trigger the terminal to open the link of the application software. .

The following describes an embodiment of the terminal of the present invention for performing the foregoing application search method. For the logical structure, please refer to FIG. 10. One embodiment of the terminal in the embodiment of the present invention includes: The request obtaining unit 1001 is configured to obtain an application request provided by the user;

a request sending unit 1002, configured to send the application request to a server;

The indication receiving unit 1003 is configured to receive an indication message sent by the server, where the indication message carries an identifier of the application software requested by the application request.

Optionally, the terminal in the embodiment of the present invention further includes:

The voice converting unit 1004 is configured to: if the application requests an application request of a voice type, convert the application request of the voice type into an application request of a text type.

The parameter input unit 1005 is configured to: when the application software indicated in the indication message is activated, use a parameter of an intent attribute included in the indication message as an input parameter using the application software. The request obtaining unit 1001 obtains an application request provided by the user; optionally, the user-provided application request may be a voice request.

Optionally, if the application request is a voice request, the voice converting unit 1004 may locally perform text conversion on the voice request, and then send an application request in text form to the server.

The request sending unit 1002 transmits the application request to the server, so that the server analyzes the user's intention according to the application request.

Optionally, the terminal may further add, in the application request, application software information installed by the terminal, and/or model information and system information of the terminal, where the application software information may be an identifier of the installed application software.

Optionally, if the application request is a voice request, the terminal may further send an application request to the server by using a voice conversion server, so that the voice conversion server converts the voice type application request into a text type application request, and then An application request of the text type is forwarded to the server.

The indication receiving unit 1003 receives the indication message sent by the server, and the indication message carries an identifier of the application software requested by the application request, and instructs the terminal to provide the application software to the user.

Optionally, if the indication message includes the parameter of the intent attribute, when the application software indicated in the indication message is started, the parameter of the intent attribute included in the indication message is used as the using the application software. Input parameters. In an actual application, the foregoing application search method may be implemented by a terminal. The following describes an embodiment of the terminal of the present invention for performing the foregoing application search method. For the logical structure, refer to FIG. 11 , where the terminal is used in the embodiment of the present invention. Another embodiment includes:

The request obtaining unit 1101 is configured to obtain an application request provided by the user;

The analyzing unit 1102 is configured to analyze user intent according to the application request;

An application searching unit 1103, configured to find an application that meets the intention of the user,

The application unit 1104 is configured to provide the user with the application software requested by the application request.

The analyzing unit 1102 in the embodiment of the present invention may include:

a text analysis module 1121, configured to perform text analysis on the application request;

a feature extraction module 1122, configured to extract an intent feature in the application request;

The parameter extraction module 1124 is configured to extract a parameter of the intent attribute in the application request. The intent matching module 1123 is configured to match the corresponding user intent according to the intent feature.

The application unit 1104 in the embodiment of the present invention is further configured to use the parameter of the intent attribute as an input parameter using the application software.

The terminal in the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

The application detecting unit 1105 is configured to detect whether the application software is installed on the terminal, and if not, find and download an installation program of the application software on the Internet.

The association unit 1106 is configured to associate the user intent with the application software, so that the application indication unit selects an application software associated with the user intent as the application software that conforms to the user's intention.

The associating unit 1106 in the embodiment of the present invention may include:

The function association module 1161 is configured to associate the application software and the intention catalog according to the function of the application software, where the intent directory includes multiple sets of user intents;

a directory association module 1162, configured to establish an association relationship between the category directory of the third-party program library and the intent directory, where the intent directory includes multiple sets of user intents; if the application is downloaded from the third-party library, according to the application The program determines, in the classification of the third-party program library, an association relationship of the user intention corresponding to the classification of the application program and the third-party program library.

For the convenience of description, the exchange process of each unit in the embodiment of the present invention can refer to the embodiment of FIG. 5 above, which is not limited herein. In the several embodiments provided herein, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method can be implemented in other ways. For example, the device embodiments described above are merely illustrative. For example, the division of the unit is only a logical function division. In actual implementation, there may be another division manner, for example, multiple units or components may be combined or Can be integrated into another system, or some features can be ignored, or not executed. In addition, the mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interface, device or unit, and may be electrical, mechanical or otherwise.

The units described as separate components may or may not be physically separate, and the components displayed as the units may or may not be physical units, that is, may be located in one place, or may be distributed to multiple network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the objectives of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist physically separately, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit. The above integrated unit can be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of a software functional unit.

The integrated unit, if implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a standalone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may contribute to the prior art or all or part of the technical solution may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium. A number of instructions are included to cause a computer device (which may be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the methods described in various embodiments of the present invention. The foregoing storage medium includes: a U disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and the like, which can store program codes. .

The above is only a specific embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention. It should be covered by the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention should be determined by the scope of the claims.

Claims

Rights request

1. An application search method, characterized by including:

The server receives the application request sent by the terminal;

The server analyzes user intent according to the application request;

The server searches for application software that meets the user's intention and sends an instruction message for using the application software to the terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the analysis of user intentions according to application requests includes:

Perform text analysis on the application request, extract intent features in the application request, and match corresponding user intent based on the intent features.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein sending an instruction message for using the application software to the terminal specifically includes:

The server sends a first instruction message to the terminal, the first instruction message is used to trigger the terminal to start the application software;

or,

The server sends a second instruction message to the terminal, and the second instruction message is used to trigger the terminal to open the link of the application software.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, before sending the instruction message for using the application software to the terminal, the method further includes:

Provide the installation program of the application software to the terminal, or push the download address of the installation program of the application software to the terminal.

5. The method according to claim 4, characterized in that, before providing the application to the terminal, the method further includes:

Obtain installed application software information on the terminal;

If the server learns that the application software has not been installed based on the installed application software information, it triggers the installation program that provides the application software to the terminal, or triggers the push of the application software to the terminal. Steps to install the download address of the program.

6. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that: text-writing the application request The analysis further includes: extracting parameters of the intent attribute in the application request;

The instruction message sent to the terminal for using the application software includes parameters of the intention attribute, so that the terminal uses the parameters of the intention attribute as input parameters for using the application software.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further includes: associating user intentions with application software;

The search for application software that meets the user's intention specifically includes:

The application software associated with the user's intention is selected as the application software that meets the user's intention.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the associating the user intention with the application software specifically includes:

The application software is associated with an intent directory according to the function of the application software, and the intent directory contains multiple groups of user intentions;

and / or,

Establish an association between the classification directory of the third-party program library and the intent directory. The intent directory contains multiple sets of user intentions; if an application is downloaded from the third-party program library, the third-party program will The classification of the library determines the association between the application program and the user intention corresponding to the classification of the third-party program library.

9. An application search method, characterized by including:

The terminal obtains the application request provided by the user;

The terminal sends the application request to the server, so that the server analyzes the user's intention according to the application request and searches for application software that reviews the user's intention;

The terminal receives an instruction message for using the application software sent by the server, and the instruction message for using the application software carries an identification of the application software requested by the application request.

10. An application search method, characterized by including:

The terminal obtains the application request provided by the user;

The terminal analyzes user intent according to the application request;

The terminal searches for application software that meets the user's intention and provides the application software to the user.

11. The method according to claim 10, characterized in that the analysis of user intentions according to application requests specifically includes:

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the text analysis of the application request further includes: extracting parameters of the intent attribute in the application request;

The use of the application software to solve the application request specifically includes:

The parameters of the intent attributes are used as input parameters for using the application software.

13. The method according to any one of claims 10 to 12, characterized in that the method further includes:

Correlate user intent with application software;

The search for application software that meets the user's intention includes:

14. The method according to claim 13, characterized in that associating user intentions with application software specifically includes:

and / or,

15. A server, characterized by including:

The receiving unit is used to receive application requests sent by the terminal;

An analysis unit, configured to analyze user intentions according to the application request;

An application instruction unit is configured to search for application software that meets the user's intention, and send an instruction message for using the application software to the terminal.

16. The server according to claim 15, characterized in that the analysis unit includes: A text analysis module, used to perform text analysis on the application request;

A feature extraction module, used to extract intended features in the application request;

An intent matching module, configured to match the corresponding user intent according to the intent characteristics.

17. The server according to claim 15, characterized in that the application instruction unit includes:

A first instruction module, configured to send a first instruction message to the terminal if the terminal has installed the application program, where the first instruction message is used to trigger the terminal to start the application software;

The second instruction module is configured to send a second instruction message to the terminal if the application program has been installed on the terminal. The second instruction message is used to trigger the terminal to open a link of the application software.

18. A terminal, characterized in that it includes:

Request acquisition unit, used to obtain application requests provided by users;

A request sending unit, configured to send the application request to the server, so that the server analyzes the user's intention according to the application request and searches for application software that reviews the user's intention;

An instruction receiving unit, configured to receive an instruction message for using the application software sent by the server, where the instruction message carries an identification of the application software requested by the application request.

19. A terminal, characterized in that it includes:

An application search unit, used to search for application software that meets the user's intention,

Application unit, used for using the application software.

20. The terminal according to claim 19, wherein the analysis unit includes: a text analysis module, configured to perform text analysis on the application request;

21. The server according to claim 20, characterized in that the analysis unit further includes: a parameter extraction module, used to extract parameters of the intent attributes in the application request;

The application unit is also configured to use the parameters of the intention attributes as input parameters for using the application software.